Dedications

The fall of Hosni Mubarak and other leaders in the Middle East region falling is nothing short of a ‘Humpty Dumpty’ domino effect. Just that these countries without the so called clichéd ‘democracy’ were able to fight corruption what India is battling after the colonial power ousted from the country.

India’s enemy is now within and if not ousted from power, Indians will continue to remain powerless and enslaved with poor infrastructure, law and order, autocratic administration from utilities, to licenses and even survival due to the apathetic health facilities. Like these countries in the Middle East, India too is a rich country. The fact if we can donate USD 2 billion to fund bail outs in Europe, fund Afghanistan, fund Bangladesh and even Pakistan during its flood calamity, confirms we are not only rich but stupid. How can we fund other countries when our country is in a mess? Couldn’t these amounts be used to cool of inflation or provide better infrastructure? Even a country like South Africa today boasts of a bullet train, when we are still in the bullock cart era in some parts of the country.

We still keep talking to Pakistan and they keep infiltrating terrorists into our country. Right on our borders they have training camps for terrorists. Shelter criminals from our country in theirs and we just keep talking. Recent visit of Pakistan Foreign Secretary Hina Rabbani Khar, was mostly covered for her beauty and style statement. If that was the purpose we could have sent Rakhi Sawant to meet her than waste time of our Ministers, who could have used their time more constructively in scheming scams. None of them are working in the interest of the country besides their own.

It is proven that private enterprise is what is taking our country forward. Even though it is thwarted with red tape, these enterprises have shown the grit and courage to forge ahead. Some of them embroiled in controversies, but many of them have proven we can make it. Some of these entrepreneurs are contributing back to society by building educational institutions or improving rural lives and we also have people like Mukesh Ambani who pride to build the world’s costliest home (read house) where a family of six have hundreds of employees to serve them. It can never be a home where brothers are vying for each other’s downfall.

Why can’t the government do what these enterprises could? We pride to be the world’s biggest democracy and it is a failure. At the same time the Middle East is toppling its evil ruling regimes to get democracy. What an irony? We claim to have the highest literacy rates, the world’s largest no. of CEO’s driving Multinational Corporations, and yet no one to drive the country. How long are we going to chase individual pursuits over national interest?

We have rotten eggs at the helm of power in India and we all know it, but what are we doing? The world is ensuring these humpty dumptys are thrown down. The choices are ours, are we going to topple these rotten eggs, or are we going to stay in this rotten state?

If we don’t act now, our Humpty Dumptys will continue sitting on the wall, these Humpty Dumptys will never fall. All the kings’ horses and all the kings’ men will ensure that Humpty Dumptys stay on the wall.